Know your checkout still works, before a customer tells you it doesn't.
Tracefox records your checkout flow once and replays it on a schedule, hourly, daily, or weekly, in a real browser. When a theme update, a plugin change, or a payment-gateway config flip breaks a step, you get a video of the failure within minutes. No code. No staging environment. Every e-commerce platform.
Free forever for one test · No credit card required
Checkouts break silently, not loudly.
Real outages, servers down, error pages, are rare and everyone notices. The expensive breakages are the quiet ones: a button that no longer adds to cart, a payment step that fails on mobile Safari, a coupon field that swallows the code. These don't trigger uptime alerts. They just bleed revenue until a customer emails support.
Theme & app updates
Shopify theme push. WooCommerce plugin auto-update. BigCommerce app install. Any of these can break a checkout step without throwing an error anywhere.
Hours or days to detect
Without automated replay, you learn about breakage when conversion drops in analytics, usually 12-48 hours later, or when a customer emails. By then the revenue is gone.
Device-specific failures
Checkout works on your desktop but a third-party mobile script is blocking the iOS Safari submit button. You'd only find out if you happened to test on mobile. Tracefox tests all viewports on every run.
Record once. Replay forever.
Setup takes about 5 minutes per store. After that, Tracefox runs unattended until you change the flow.
Install the extension
The Tracefox Chrome extension captures every click, input, and page transition as you walk through your checkout manually.
Click through checkout
Add to cart, fill shipping info, enter test payment details or stop at the payment review screen. The extension records every step as a reusable test.
Pick a schedule
Hourly on Business, daily on Pro, weekly on Starter. Multi-viewport on Pro+ lets you replay the same recording on desktop, mobile, and tablet.
Get alerts on failure
Slack, email, or webhook, on failure Tracefox sends a video of what broke, a screenshot of the failed step, and a link to the detection page.
Any checkout a human can complete, Tracefox can test.
Tracefox uses real headless Chromium. There's no platform-specific integration, no API that needs to exist, no custom SDK. If the checkout loads in a browser, it's testable.
Shopify
Theme updates, Shopify Plus checkout extensions, app installs, payment gateways.
WooCommerce
Plugin updates, WordPress core changes, cache invalidation, payment gateway plugins.
BigCommerce
Embedded checkout, custom checkouts, Stencil theme changes, app conflicts.
Magento / Adobe Commerce
Module updates, composer updates, checkout extension conflicts.
Plus Squarespace Commerce, custom Next.js / headless storefronts, and any other browser-based checkout.
You don't just hear "it broke." You see exactly how.
Most testing tools tell you a test failed. Tracefox tells you which step failed, what the page looked like when it failed, and what the browser recorded leading up to it.
- Video of the full run , watch the failure happen, not just read a stack trace
- Step-level screenshots , every click and transition captured, so you can pinpoint where it went wrong
- Error message + console output , if there's a JavaScript exception, it's there
- Shareable link , forward the detection to a developer or client without exporting anything
Full replay saved for every failed run.
Desktop, mobile, and tablet from one recording.
Every interaction screenshotted in sequence.
JavaScript errors and network failures captured.
Common questions
What is automated checkout testing?
Automated checkout testing is when a tool replays a full checkout flow, add to cart, enter shipping, enter payment, complete order, on a schedule, in a real browser, without a human clicking through it. If any step fails, you get an alert within minutes. It's how you find out your checkout is broken before customers do.
How is this different from uptime monitoring?
Uptime tools tell you if the homepage loads. Checkout testing tells you whether a customer can actually place an order. Most outages that kill revenue aren't site-down events, they're silent regressions: a payment gateway app update, a theme change, a Shopify app conflict. Uptime checks miss all of these. A replayed checkout catches them in the next scheduled run.
Do I need to write code to set this up?
No. With Tracefox, you install the Chrome extension, click through your checkout once (add to cart → checkout → payment → confirmation), and the extension records every step. Tracefox replays that recording on its infrastructure, hourly, daily, or weekly depending on your plan, with no code involved.
Will it place real orders every time it runs?
No. The recording stops at whatever step you define as success, typically the payment review page or a test-mode confirmation. You can also use a coupon code that Tracefox enters automatically, and point to a test SKU or test store. Most customers configure it against their live production store without ever placing a real order.
How often should checkout tests run?
Depends on volume. For a DTC brand doing hourly orders, run tests hourly (Business plan), a 1-hour detection window limits revenue loss to a single-digit percentage of daily orders. For smaller stores or staging environments, daily is typically fine. The key is running them unattended, on a schedule, not just after deploys.
What platforms does this work with?
Any platform with a browser-based checkout: Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Squarespace Commerce, custom Next.js / headless storefronts, anything. Tracefox records what happens in a real Chromium browser, so if a human can complete the flow, Tracefox can replay it.
What happens when a test fails?
You get a Slack or email alert within minutes (depending on plan), with the video of the failed run, a screenshot of the exact step that broke, the error message, and a link to the detection page. From there you can share the evidence with your developer or client. The next scheduled run automatically marks the issue resolved when it starts passing again.
Stop finding broken checkouts in arrears.
Record your first checkout test in 5 minutes. Free for one test, forever. No credit card.